SKINSIGNAL

SKINSIGNAL PINK CLAY ENZYME CLEANSER

Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read

Read on 2026-09-19

What is this product?

A Korean powder cleanser for oily, blackhead prone skin, sold in a pink, green and white colorway set where pink is the blackhead version. The statutory ingredient disclosure lists 13 items: corn starch as the powder base, two mild anionic surfactants, kaolin clay at a disclosed 100,000ppm, salicylic acid, and papain as the enzyme. Concentration of the acid and the enzyme is not disclosed. It is used as a wash or held on the skin briefly as a rinse off mask, and the brand singles out the T zone for longer working. Marketing leads on a completed blackhead removal trial and a pH 5.5 formula, neither of which has a study, a method or a report attached on any surface read.

What makes it different?

Two exfoliating mechanisms in one rinse off step, a protease and a beta hydroxy acid, in a waterless powder that carries no preservative and no fragrance on its printed list. The colorway is not cosmetic: the pink version is the one whose acid is salicylic rather than the polyhydroxy acid its green sibling uses.

What is in it?

The full ingredient list as the brand publishes it, in the printed order. Each name links to what we know about that ingredient.

This brand publishes its ingredient list in Korean only. Names below are the matching INCI names from the Korean Cosmetic Association ingredient dictionary, except 1 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

We could not place these in the list above: 살리실릭애씨드

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 9 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 3 of them look likely, though none are proven outright.

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

likely, not proven3

  • Effect of masking at the same time as cleansing
    Korean original

    세안과 동시에 팩하는 효과

  • Skinsignal Clay Enzyme Cleanser can be used in 3 ways.
    Korean original

    스킨시그널 클레이 효소 클렌저는 3가지 방법으로 사용이 가능해요.

  • A clay pore cleanser that thoroughly clears out blackheads, sebum, and old dead skin cells to keep pores clean
    Korean original

    블랙헤드, 피지, 묵은 각질을 싹 비워 모공을 깨끗하게 해주는 클레이 모공클렌저

partly backed2

  • Contains BHA, clinical trial for blackhead removal completed! Achieve glowing skin with the enzyme cleanser!
    Korean original

    BHA함유, 블랙헤드 제거 임상시험 완료! 효소 클렌저와 함께 빛나는 피부로 가꾸어보세요!

  • Care for blackheads and whiteheads with BHA
    Korean original

    BHA함유로 블랙헤드, 화이트헤드 케어

no evidence4

  • All ingredients naturally derived & EWG grade 1
    Korean original

    전성분 자연유래&EWG 1등급

  • Clinical trial for blackhead removal completed
    Korean original

    블랙헤드 제거 임상 시험 완료

  • Mildly acidic pH5.5 formula
    Korean original

    약산성 pH5.5 포뮬라

  • Organic, domestically produced, vegan, no chemical additives, no preservatives
    Korean original

    유기농, 국내산, 비건, 無화학첨가, 無방부제

Each line is quoted as the brand published it, and each one was read on its own against the ingredient list and the documents the brand publishes.

How we read these lines